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Abstract
This talk will examine the design of high integrity localization
systems for the automation of large scale outdoor vehicles. High
integrity systems are designed to be robust to the failure of any
component. The guarantee of integrity is becoming increasingly
important as the scale of autonomous vehicles (and therefore the
potential to do harm) increases.

In this talk, frequency domain techniques will be used to describe the
behavior of localization systems. The same techniques can be used to
guarantee that all system faults will be detectable. Finally, a case
study will be presented illustrating how these techniques may be
applied to a real system.

The work described in this talk was carried out while the speaker was
at the Australian Center for Field Robotics at the University of
Sydney.

Speaker Biography
Steven Scheding is currently a PostDoctoral
researcher at the National Robotics Engineering Consortium, Carnegie
Mellon University. He received his PhD in Mechatronics from the
University of Sydney in 1997. Research interests include the
automation of large outdoor vehicles, particularly in mining, fault
detection and identification, simultaneous localisation and map
building, nonlinear control, and system design.